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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 4, 1908.

Application sied July is, 1907. serial No. 383,683.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES' H. MCCAME- RON, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of St. Louis and State' of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Validation-Certificates, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings. l

My invention relates to improvements in tickets and particularly to improvements in tickets or certificates, which when attached to railroad tickets, willeXtend the limit of, or validate the latter," indicating` upon what date or day, and train or trainsthe'railroad ticket will be acce ted as good. Thus, certain classes of raiiioad tickets sold Jfor the ybenefit of the general public, are sold under contract with the original purchaser, wherein the original purchaser agrees to comply with certain express conditions therein stated and more particularly that the original urchaser, will, prior to a certain day, identi y himself to the satisfaction of the terminal, joint orl validating agent as the case may be, as the original' purchaser of said ticket. This identification may be effected by signature or other means; and as a means of certifying that the passenger` has so identified himself in compliance with the terms of his contract, one of these validating certicates isA attached to the ticket making it good and valid for return passage and showing the conductor at a glance whether the ticket has been presented for validation according to contract, within the proper time. Other uses of my new validation certificate will be made to appear hereinafter.

In the drawings illustrating the principle of my invention and the best mode now known to me of applying that principle, Figure l shows the validation certiiicate complete; and Fig. 2 showsthe same certificate i when its margin has ,been torn off for the purpose hereinafter set forth.

The ticket or paster consists of two main portions to wit, the certificate portion a and the record' or advice portion b. .Each of these portions bears an identifying or tally number c by which the two portions may be identiied and a record kept after they have been separated from each` other. 'The-ad vice portion is provided at d with blanks for describing the nature of the ticket to which the certificate portion has been pasted,` the description including the name of the issuing line l c, the form of the ticket validated f, its number g, the place where sold h, the date of sale i,

the route over which the passage was taken y', and the name ofthe purchaser c, and other data. On thecertiiicate portion blanks are left for writing in the name of the issuing line at e*, the form of the ticket validated atf, its number at g*, and other data and the signature of the original purchaser at cl. The certificate portion also gives the name of the validating agency m, and the name of the place n from which the ticket validated is good for passage.

Common to the advice portion and the certiiicate portion before the separation of these parts (Fig. 1) are the year o, the month p, the day g and hours of the day (both forenoon and afternoon) r; and these are arranged so that when the advice portion is torn from the certificate portion, the torn or irregular margin of the latter will indicate to the-conductor the year, month, day and hour before which the ticket validated must be used in order to. entitle the original purchaser to the passage described by said ticket. The torn or irregular margin of the advice portion will indicate the same information and may serve as a record.

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1. A paster consisting of two portions and bearing matter indicating that a ticket will be validated by the attachment of the paster thereto, said matter also indicating upon which train the ticket will be good when so validated, and having printed upon it characters indicating days of the month and hours of the day, said characters being arranged in columns, whereby after separation of said portions from each other, a time limit may be read from both portions.

2. A paster of the character described consisting of a certificate portion and a record portion; each of said portions having printed thereon means for describing the tlcket to p time, said characters being arranged between the said means printed u on the certificate portion and those printe upon the record portion of the paster.

3. A paster ofthe character described provided with a plurality of characters which are arranged in columns and which indicate days and hours of the days; and having printed upon one side of said columns means which identity the ticket to Which said paster is to be attached and for indicating that the pastel' is to be attached to said ticket.

4. A paster of the character described having printed thereon in columns a pluralityT of characters for indicating times of departure of trains and upon one Side of said columns means Jfor indicating the place of issue of the paster and the place of departure of the trains; said paster bearing matter indicating that it will render valid and good a railroad ticket by its attachment thereto.

5. A paster of the character described having printed thereon a plurality of characters 'for indicating times of departure of trains and a plurality of characters for describing a railroad ticket g said pastor bearinr matter indicatin(r that it Will render said railroad. ticket Valid and goed for passage upon said trains by its attachment to said ticket.

In Witness whereof, l have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two witnesses at said St. Louis, this 20th day of' June, 1907.

JAMES H. l\floCAl\lERON.

VVitnesses EDNA P. WUALEN, WALTER N. DAVIS. 

